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From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
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Richard Ruland, Malcolm Bradbury
From a Modernist/Postmodernist perspective, this title addresses questions of literary and cultural nationalism. The authors reveal that since the seventeenth century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate of its time and helped define America's cultural and social parameters. Above all, they argue that American ...
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Modern British Short Stories, the Penguin Book of
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Various, Malcolm Bradbury (Editor)
This anthology is in many was a 'best of the best', containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, ...
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Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930
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Malcolm Bradbury
This is an exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy.
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Doctor Criminale
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Malcolm Bradbury
In this spy-novel spoof, the title character is a mysterious international philosopher/star, who is being pursued by an earnest, naive journalist for a television series.
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The Atlas of Literature
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Malcolm Bradbury (Editor)
Here is a unique tour of literature through the ages and across the continents, focusing on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and time, and capturing towns, cities, and regions in their literary heyday. More than 80 essays explore places including Shakespeare's Stratford, Jane Austen's Bath, Hawthorne's New England, James ...
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No, Not Bloomsbury
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Malcolm Bradbury
This first volume of Bradbury's collected critical writings concentrates on British fiction since 1945. It is written from the center of the field it surveys: Bradbury is a writer who is also a critic, a critic who is also a writer. He often feels a conflict between the two roles, but writes in a personal, lucid, and amusing style, alert to modern ...
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History Man
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Bradbury
Set in Watermouth University, this is the story of Barbara and Howard Kirk, their very modern marriage and their equally radical politics. It captures the complexities of academic life, from tedious meetings and work-place machinations, to corruption and disruption at the highest levels.
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The Modern American Novel: New Revised Edition
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To the Hermitage
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Malcolm Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury's last novel, published posthumously, tells two stories set 200 years apart. In 1773, Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot is invited to Russia by Catherine the Great, with whom he discusses, among other things, the nature of government. In 1993, a group of Diderot partisans also travel to Russia, and the novel becomes a satire ...
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Rates of exchange
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Malcolm Bradbury
This satirical novel takes place in a fictional Utopian nation somewhere in Eastern Europe.
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Eating People is Wrong
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Professor Treece's respectable supremacy at a small provincial university is under threat from his own sense of failure, and an upstart freshman, Louise Bates, but most of all from his love for a desirable post-graduate. The author also wrote "Rates of Exchange" and "The History Man".
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The Complete Henry Bech
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John Updike, Malcolm Bradbury (Introduction by)
This volume joins three previously published collections of stories by Updike about the character Henry Bech, an ambitious Jewish writer with a Nobel laureate and an eye for women. One never-before-published story, "His Oeuvre," is included. Malcolm Bradbury writes an introduction.
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Liar's Landscape: Collected Writing from a Storyteller's Life
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Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge (Afterword by)
'What is written lives far longer than we do - or so we would like to think.' From unfinished novel to unsent letters, from prose to play, from Macclesfield to the New Year's Honours List, "Liar's Landscape" is evidence of the late great author's versatility, wit and passion for the written word. When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left ...
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The modern world : ten great writers
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My strange quest for Mensonge : structuralisms hidden hero
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Dangerous Pilgrimages: Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novel
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Malcolm Bradbury
This is an account of the historical literary connections between Europe and America. Each chapter concentrates on a particular subject, including: Charles Dickens in America, Washington Irving in Europe, and Henry James in London.
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Modern American Novel
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Malcolm Bradbury
The Modern American Novel is an indispensable handbook for all those interested in the novel and American culture. This new, completely revised and updated edition of Malcolm Bradbury's examination of the modern American novel offers an extensive account of the multiplicity and variety of contemporary American fiction, while providing a clear ...
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The Penguin companion to American literature.
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Malcolm Bradbury, Eric Mottram, Jean Franco
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The Modern World
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Red Badge of Courage Red Badge of Courage
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Stephen Crane, Malcolm Bradbury (Editor)
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, the harrowing tale of a young soldier in battle during the Civil War, is a masterpiece of 19th-century naturalism. Crane attended a military prep school and was obsessed with war all his life, but he wrote the novel without ever having witnessed a battle--a fact he was always slightly defensive about. Before he began to ...
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Sketchbook of Geoffrey
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Washington Irving, Malcolm Bradbury (Editor)
Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.
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Dangerous Pilgrimages: 8trans-Atlantic Mythologies and the Novel
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Malcolm Bradbury
A study of the way ideas, in the form of literature, have been exchanged between Europe and America over the years.
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The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
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Malcolm Bradbury
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My Strange Quest for Mensonge
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The Modern World: 2ten Great Writers
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Malcolm Bradbury
This book, in ten succinct essays, examines the ten "greats" of early 20th century literature. In each case the author's most important work is discussed in the context of the author's life, other writings and place in the modernist movement.
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